Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next year Alfred takes a sabbatical from Harvard and already his calendar is filled with teaching stints the country and with less academic projects such as openings in Dublin and London for Hogan...
...Brien, pseudonymous author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Flann O'Brien was one of the pen names of Brian O'Nolan, wit, playwright and civil servant. Under the name of Myles na gCopaleen, he wrote a satirical column for the Irish Times; he died in Dublin on April 1. But in all three identities, he was a great kidder. At Swim, first published in London in 1939 and twelve years later in New York, has since gathered a subterranean reputation-and thus this new edition-as possibly the most maddeningly complicated book ever written. It is also funny...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Playwright Brian Friel, recognizing that each man carries within him both his severest critic and most appreciative fan, converts his insight into a striking dramatic device. Two Dublin actors-Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly-capture our fancy and sympathy as the public and private selves of a young man forsaking his Irish village for an American metropolis...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Playwright Brian Friel, recognizing that each man carries within him both his severest critic and "his most appreciative fan, converts his insight into a striking dramatic device. Two Dublin actors-Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly-capture our fancy and sympathy as the public and private selves of a young man forsaking his Irish village for an American metropolis...
...freedom are the projects ticked off-sometimes in conventional shots of happy peasants and hopeful Negroes, more often in briskly edited footage of Kennedy's trips abroad. The President's motorcade in Mexico City is barely visible through a blizzard of red, white and blue confetti. In Dublin and Berlin, the running, grasping crowds give massive support to the making of an image. As violent contrast, the movie cuts with maudlin frequency to Kennedy's funeral preparations in Washington. Every sequence is anguishing, relentlessly focused on the ordeal of a benumbed young widow guiding her children through...